Romania's energy output fell by an annual 5.6% in the first six months of 2024, to 8.536 million tonnes of oil equivalent (TOE), as the the output of hydropower stations fell by an annual 24.1% to 8.632 TWh, the statistical office said, citing provisional data. Romania's energy resources, including imports, totalled 15.659 million TOE in the six months through June, down 2.9% on the year, the statistical office said in a statement on Tuesday. Imports amounted to 7.123 million TOE, up by an annual 0.5%. Romania's own electricity output and imports totalled 33.222 TWh in the review period, inching down by 1.5% year-on-year. Thermal power plants generated some 8.351 TWh of electricity in the first six months of 2024, with their output edging down by 0.4% on the year. Electricity generation by Cernavoda, Romania’s sole nuclear power plant, ticked down by 3.1% to 5.178 TWh in the January-June period. Wind farms generated some 3.414 TWh of electricity, down by an annual 14.5%, while solar plants generated 1.673 TWh, up 62.6%. Final electricity consumption inched up by an annual 0.8% to 24.765 TWh in the review period. Romania’s electricity exports decreased by an annual 8.7% to 5.876 TWh in the first six months of the year, while imports jumped 65.9% to 5.974 TWh. The country produced 1.353 million TOE of crude oil, down 3.8% on the year, and 929,700 TOE of coal, down 19.8%, in January-June. Natural gas production rose 1.3% year-on-year, reaching 3.803 million TOE. Romania's energy production fell 0,8% to 17.0 million TOE in 2023. TOE is the rounded-off amount of energy that would be produced by burning one metric tonne of crude oil.
Cristian Radu, the mayor of Mangalia - a popular seaside resort in Romania, has been placed in pre-trial detention for 30 days after the Constanța Court of Appeal upheld prosecutors’ request to arrest him on bribery charges. The ruling, delivered on Wednesday, August 27, is final,
Private markets infrastructure provider SeedBlink announced on Thursday, August 28, that it has promoted Ronald Rapberger to head of sales to drive its next phase of growth. The company is in active expansion, and has grown from a fundraising platform into a technology-driven infrastructure for startup investing in five years, according to the company's press […]
The leaders of France, Germany, and Poland traveled to the Republic of Moldova on Wednesday, August 27, to convince people to support the country’s pro-EU government a month from now, on September 28, at the parliamentary elections. Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, and Donald Tusk delivered emotional speeches in Chișinău and surprised the crowd when they addressed them in […]
A foreign food delivery worker was attacked in Bucharest by a 20-year-old man who struck him in the face while shouting that he was an “invader” and demanding he return to his country. The case drew wide public attention after former police officer Marian Godină shared a video of the incident on Facebook (see below). […]
Timișoara mayor Dominic Fritz has traveled to Istanbul as part of a delegation of European mayors showing solidarity with the arrested mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. The European delegation also includes the mayors of Barcelona, Athens, Budapest, Sofia, Utrecht, and Zagreb. The European mayors want to draw attention to “the political nature of the arrest of Ekrem […]
Romanian media reported on Wednesday, August 27, that president Nicușor Dan is considering business lawyer Gabriel Zbârcea to lead the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), a politically sensitive appointment that requires parliamentary approval.
